{"id":1934968,"date":"2023-05-21T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T05:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-student-misses-graduation-after-mississippi-judge-backs-dress-code\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T01:21:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T05:21:13","slug":"transgender-student-misses-graduation-after-mississippi-judge-backs-dress-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-student-misses-graduation-after-mississippi-judge-backs-dress-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi judge supports dress code, transgender student misses graduation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftransgender-student-misses-graduation-after-mississippi-judge-backs-dress-code%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1934968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Transgender Senior Skips Graduation After District Refuses to Allow Deviations from Gender-Based Dress Code<\/h2>\n<h3>A Fight for Equality<\/h3>\n<p>A transgender senior in Mississippi was forced to skip their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-police-say-door-to-uvalde-elementary-school-was-unlocked-when-gunman-entered\/\" title=\"Texas Police Say Door to Uvalde Elementary School Was Unlocked When Gunman Entered\">high school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-school-board-hosts-retirement-party-for-superintendent-though-senior-prom-remains-canceled\/\" title=\"Arizona School Board Hosts Retirement Party For Superintendent, Though Senior Prom Remains Canceled\">graduation ceremony<\/a><\/a> when the district refused to allow any deviations from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-student-misses-graduation-after-mississippi-judge-backs-dress-code\/\" title=\"Mississippi judge supports dress code, transgender student misses graduation.\">gender-based dress code<\/a>. The student, referred to in court documents as LB, was required to dress in &#8220;socks, dress shoes, pants, a button-down shirt, and tie,&#8221; which is Harris County School District&#8217;s dress code for male graduates. <\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to earn more leeway in choosing a graduation outfit, LB sued Harris Central High School Principal Kelly Fuller, the Harrison County School Board, Harrison County School District, and Superintendent Mitchell King. However, U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel upheld the dress code in a ruling Friday, stating that &#8220;the loss of an opportunity to participate in a graduation ceremony is not an unconstitutional infringement on a student\u2019s right to freely exercise his religious beliefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>A Disappointing Ruling<\/h3>\n<p>The student was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, who wrote on Twitter that the &#8220;decision to uphold the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-bends-knee-to-teacher-union-allows-remote-learning-after-threat-of-strike\/\" title=\"Chicago Mayor Bends Knee to Teacher Union, Allows Remote Learning After Threat of Strike\">school district\u2019<\/a>s explicit discrimination&#8221; was &#8220;deeply disappointing and concerning.&#8221; The ACLU also stated that &#8220;all Mississippi students should have the right and autonomy to be who they are\u2014not who judges and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-overwhelming-support-for-school-choice-in-n-c\/\" title=\"Poll: Overwhelming support for school choice in N.C.\">school officials<\/a> think they should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>A Call for Equality<\/h3>\n<p>This ruling highlights the ongoing fight for equality for transgender individuals. It is important that we continue to push for policies and practices that allow individuals to express their gender identity freely and without discrimination. Let us work towards a future where all individuals are accepted and celebrated for who they are.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Article:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senators-renew-push-to-ban-congressional-colleagues-from-trading-stocks\">Senators Renew Push to Ban Congressional Colleagues from Trading Stocks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender senior in Mississippi skipped graduation after the district refused to allow any deviations from the gender-based dress code. The student, referred to as LB, was required to dress in &#8220;socks, dress shoes, pants, a button down shirt and tie&#8221; which is Harris County School District&#8217;s policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1934969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[8599,14829,24988,5387,15392,6632,5135,9787,4019],"class_list":["post-1934968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-code","tag-dress","tag-graduation","tag-judge","tag-misses","tag-mississippi","tag-student","tag-supports","tag-transgender"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}